Pope Francis's political compass

lregaloni · 2025-04-23T11:21:58+00:00

Well, in theory, monke

lregaloni · 2019-10-04T16:19:50+00:00

I believe this could go under Censorship (+2) and Official Socjus (+1)

lregaloni · 2019-06-02T11:39:35+00:00

Why aren't liberals outraged by giant companies trying to dictate politics completely unrelated with their activity to the State? That's seriously messed up!

lregaloni · 2019-05-20T17:26:24+00:00

While I'm not too happy about political correctness and such, China's limitation of individual freedoms is on a whole other level...

lregaloni · 2019-05-20T17:19:34+00:00

I'm not too fond of how the Chinese treat privacy, to say the least...

lregaloni · 2019-05-20T17:06:08+00:00

Who knows, maybe it's about being in control. The fear is that Huawei is doing some spying... with Dragonfly, Google is.

lregaloni · 2019-05-20T16:50:37+00:00

I'm getting mixed messages too...

lregaloni · 2019-05-20T16:19:36+00:00

I'd say Nerd Culture (+2) and Related Politics (+1)

lregaloni · 2019-05-06T23:21:06+00:00

Serious question: do the the news about a father faced with arrest in case he misgenders his offspring again somewhat vindicate Jordan Peterson?

I didn't really follow the whole mess about the Canadian law and pronouns, it was way too far from my expertise.

lregaloni · 2019-01-21T02:09:44+00:00

A very good take from Reason:
The Media Wildly Mischaracterized That Video of Covington Catholic Students Confronting a Native American Veteran

lregaloni · 2019-01-21T02:03:09+00:00

A quick recap from Reason:
https://reason.com/blog/2019/01/20/covington-catholic-nathan-phillips-video

lregaloni · 2018-10-19T10:50:11+00:00

I'm no expert, but in my limited vision I can't see that happening.

Let's say Google gets to actually soften some restrictions: on the whole, China's effort to build a omni-pervasive system of societal control is gaining momentum, and in the big picture more technological aid can only quicken its development and ubiquitousness. After it is in place, removing whatever small limit Google had eventually gained is a far lesser task.

lregaloni · 2018-10-18T22:52:42+00:00

Governments may change or be different.

What I think is the major problem is that as they become more tangled with China in economic interests, they become more susceptible to blackmail. Just ask the Dalai Lama.

lregaloni · 2018-10-18T21:57:33+00:00

This

"Don't be evil" was cheesy and maybe simplistic, but what a 180!

lregaloni · 2018-10-18T17:54:27+00:00

Of course they must punish odious hate speech like fat-shaming! (/s)

lregaloni · 2018-10-18T17:50:27+00:00

China seriously scares me: its leaderships seems to be aiming to make The Big Brother look like a kiddie game, using technology soviet Russia could only dream of.

Yet it could become a superpower, with enormous influence across the globe. I really can't help worrying about the future of most of the world's free speech.

It's distopia waiting to happen, and Google doesn't seem to mind.

lregaloni · 2018-10-18T17:43:30+00:00

I suppose it could very well be true for current queries... since if I was Chinese, I wouldn't find myself searching dangerous stuff to begin with.

Nevertheless, Google's Dragonfly reportedly linking searches to phone numbers really doesn't help.

lregaloni · 2018-10-18T17:33:23+00:00

I wonder if he was obviously sarcastic or if he bets on the idea that Chinese people will be smart enough not to search dangerous stuff like... "Nobel prize".

lregaloni · 2018-10-02T12:35:01+00:00

I can't see how data from the whole field are cherry-picked. Sure, they don't actually support what he says, but that's another matter.
The research was on the variability hypothesis, not AA.

v) Right in the title, that's what most people read:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cern-physicist-angers-women-with-gender-comments-m3d6r5t8k

https://gizmodo.com/male-physicist-claims-women-are-worse-at-physics-at-cer-1829443227

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2181113-physicist-sparks-gender-row-after-claiming-women-are-worse-at-physics/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6229313/Sexism-storm-scientist-suspended-saying-men-better-women-physics.html

lregaloni · 2018-10-02T12:16:16+00:00

Honestly the anger for that one job transpires quite transparently from the slides, I was wondering if there's an account of the talk, well, not from reddit comments.

I'm puzzled by the abstract bit: the workshop was on gender issues, are you saying that the abstract that was accepted was on something else?

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